MV Sun Sea

The six suspects charged with organizing the MV Sun Sea human smuggling scheme will go directly to trial without a preliminary hearing, the Public Prosecution Service of Canada announced on Wednesday. The Crown filed direct indictments against the two Canadians and four Sri Lankans accused of being behind the voyage that brought 492 refugee claimants […]

The first Canadian to face charges over the Sun Sea, which brought 492 Sri Lankan asylum seekers to British Columbia in 2010, Thampeernayagam Rajaratnam was arrested on Tuesday by the RCMP and Toronto Police Service

Thayakaran Markandu was being held in custody by French authorities, police said, adding extradition proceedings were underway to bring him to Canada, where he could face life imprisonment and a $1-million fine

Jason Kenney might not the best immigration minister Canada has ever had (even if a recent National Post editorial suggested he is), but he’s certainly showing more guts than we came to expect from his Liberal predecessors. For many years, conventional wisdom held that to pursue touchy immigration or refugee reforms was to risk the […]

The RCMP charged a Sri Lankan national with human smuggling on Wednesday over his alleged role in organizing the MV Sun Sea, the cargo ship that arrived off the British Columbia coast more than 18 months ago carrying 492 asylum seekers